SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Hegemonic Masculinity, Intersex, Post-Structuralism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Sex- determination of male or female on the basis of a set off socially agreed-upon biological criteria. Gender- social distinction between masculinity and femininity. Binary construction form of categorization based on 2 mutually exclusive and diametrically opposite groups. Hermaphrodites combination of male and female genitalia and/or chromosomes. Any given culture defines what it means to be male and female. Gender relations- organizing principles that shape and order interactions between, as well as the relative social importance if woman and men. Intersects with other organizing principles in society e. g. ethnicity, social class. Transgender- umbrella tern for a range of people who do not fit into normative constructions of sex and gender. Live as gender they identify as themselves with or without sex reassignment procedures. Includes transsexuals, transvestites, intersexed individuals, people who identity themselves neither male or female. Transsexual- a person who undergoes sex reassignment, which may include surgeries. No single form of masculinity or femininity culturally dominant forms.